Harmonica Collector/Player Club
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www.harmonicacollectorsinternational.com
Joining this harmonica club will probably be the best thing you've ever done as a harmonica player or collector. The amount of information and photo's of old harmonica's is unbelievable. There's no other harmonica club on this planet, that you get so much information from. The news letter called The Trumpet Call is filled with harmonica information and photo's. You can get back issues from the start of the club (1992) just filled with so much harmonica information and photo's it's hard to absorb it all. Just one back issue or for that matter a new issue is worth the small small membership fee. And for being a member Harmonicas-Musical will give you a 10% discount. The discount alone on just one purchase could pay for the small yearly membership fee. You can look all over the internet and will not find the information or photo's you get from being a club member. Click one of the links to go directly to the Harmonica Collectors International Club home page for more information and the membership application. You will forever be glad you clicked the link.
Harmonica Collectors International (HCI) was created to support harmonica collectors and promote harmonica collecting. It is the mission of HCI to provide a forum for individual collectors to communicate with other members, as well as to gather and spread the body of knowledge about harmonicas, their makers, trademarks, and how the instruments have evolved since their invention in the early nineteenth century. It promotes collecting by publishing member-written articles that describe interesting and unique discoveries, as well as articles and reprints from other sources. These articles are featured in HCI’s quarterly publication, The Trumpet Call. HCI directly supports collectors by offering copies of old harmonica catalogs to its members either as inserts in The Trumpet Call or on request for only the cost to photocopy and ship the documents. HCI maintains contact with the largest harmonica makers and harmonica museums, primarily in Germany and Austria, to provide members with information and publications that would be otherwise unavailable.
As far as we're concerned, a collection is anything more than 2 harmonicas, so feel comfortable in joining, as HCI welcomes collectors, musicians, as well as harmonica enthusiasts.
It started at Atlantic city, September 1992. I was hunting for harmonicas at the "Atlantique City" antique show. I picked up and bought a harmonica and while waiting for my change, the seller mentioned another customer had been by earlier and almost bought it. Since I had always thought I was the only harmonica collector, it was gratifying to hear of another. It turns out that the other collector had left a card, so I wrote down his address and phone number. Later, I called Alan Bates, and became fast friends. Even though Alan was from Delaware and I was from Missouri, We corresponded frequently, via phone and mail, swapping information and trading duplicates. We spent the next several years trying to expand our collector contacts, without much success. Then In 1995, I met Harland Crain, an avid beginning collector, who lives less than 10 minutes from me. Because I had been collecting for 20 years , I could sell some duplicates to Harland and he could grow his collection at a swift pace. The three of us would meet at antique shows and visit each others houses to comb through examples we had not seen before and try to learn more about harmonicas.
We decided that we might enjoy meeting and learning from other collectors, so we sent out an announcement that we were going to recruit another long time collector, Richard Smith from Ohio, and create a collector's club. Our first newsletter (The Trumpet Call) was published June 1998, and editor Harland Crain has been doing a great job with the help of contributing members. A significant number of collectors, including HCI officers, acquire harmonicas through auctions, primarily eBay. HCI officers take note of enthusiastic on-line collectors, contact them via email to invite them to join HCI. HCI members bid hard against each other, but they also offer guidance and alert each other to misrepresented, fraudulent, or overpriced items. Most members freely exchange photos and other information about their collections either directly or through the club’s information archives. It is a principal goal of HCI to foster such individual relationships among collectors that transcends any competitive angst that otherwise develops among “bidders”.
HCI has been represented at the annual SPAH convention for many years, with both Richard Smith and Harland Crain displaying old and unusual harmonicas. In addition to the displays, Harland and I have given several seminars on "Vintage Harmonica Collecting" which culminated in 2004, when SPAH had their convention in Saint Louis, and 11 HCI members met , and talked harmonicas. Tours of Harland's collections, as well as mine, were a hit with the collectors, and other members brought some real gems to share with all.
Join our club, get involved, and have a blast collecting Harmonicas!!
www.harmonicacollectorsinternational.com Clicking this link will be the best thing you've ever done as a harmonica player or collector.
Price: $25.00 This price is for a one year membership in the best harmonica club on the planet. To get more information follow any of the links provided. Check it out at www.harmonicas-musical.com or the above link. DO NOT PAY HERE PLEASE PAY THE HARMONICA CLUB. If you need to use pay pal I will forward your payment. However, it will delay your membership getting started a couple days. You will never regret this small fee.
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